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Prison Inmate Sues The kardashian’s..LOL

Some people are looking forward for recent news about Kim Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian and Khloe Kardashian. However, one man is having enough with the Kardashians sisters' actions – he's filing a lawsuit against them. According to TMZ, an inmate at the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, named D.J. Goodson, filed the legal papers against Kim, Kourtney and Khloe, claiming he developed “extreme emotional distress due to their outrageousness of actions.” D.J. Stated that he suffered the “extreme emotional distress” after forced to watch “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” and “Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami”. In the suit, which was filed in a federal court, D.J. also mentioned that he permanently scarred from… Get Full story at this link http://www.waneenterprises.com/news/561 added by: Wizzane

Paris Hilton To Avoid Jail With Plea Deal

The heiress will receive a year of probation in cocaine possession case. By Mawuse Ziegbe Paris Hilton in Las Vegas police custody August 27, 2010 Photo: Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Paris Hilton is finally getting over her rough night in Vegas . According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the heiress will avoid jail time in her felony cocaine possession case with a plea agreement. Hilton is expected to plead guilty to misdemeanor drug possession and misdemeanor obstructing an officer on Monday. The plea deal will land the socialite a year of probation. Hilton was arrested on August 27 in Las Vegas after the SUV she was riding in was pulled over and police found 0.8 grams of cocaine in her purse. She later claimed the purse didn’t belong to her and blasted rumors surrounding her case . Under the conditions of the plea agreement obtained by the Review-Journal, Hilton will face a year in jail if she is arrested during her probation for anything besides a minor traffic violation. The heiress is also required to pay a $2,000 fine, complete a substance abuse program and carry out 200 hours of community service. “There are very strict limits on her future conduct. We will not have to litigate whether she was convicted of the charge or whether the charge was a major or minor offense,” Clark County District Attorney David Roger said, referencing the consequences if Hilton steps out of line again. “Ms. Hilton understands the seriousness of the situation and appreciates the chance she is being given,” the socialite’s lawyer David Chesnoff told The Associated Press . “She has to stay out of trouble.” The plea deal caps off a summer of legal drama for the heiress. Hilton was detained in South Africa in July at the World Cup for suspected possession of marijuana but didn’t face charges when another member of her posse was found to be smoking. Related Photos Moments In Paris Hilton’s Legal Life Related Artists Paris Hilton

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Trey Songz Makes Audience Swoon On NYC Tour Stop

R&B singer joined onstage by Ludacris and Fabolous, with Monica opening the show. By Rebecca L. Thomas Trey Songz Photo: Bennett Raglin/ WireImage NEW YORK — Trey Songz turned New York’s Beacon Theatre into his own private “Sex Room” on Thursday. It was just him and a sea of adoring women who erupted into orgasmic screams at even the slightest gesture: a shirt button come undone, a lingering gaze. Oh, did he ask, you, the single girl who came date-less to this first of two final stops on his Passion, Pain & Pleasure tour , if he could be your boyfriend for the night? Cue shrieking girls. The R&B prince seemed to have no trouble finding that, um, special spot, kicking off the rollicking concert with the audacious “I Invented Sex,” before slowing things down to the back-arching tempo that dominated the evening’s first half. Suited up in a gray suit vest and matching trousers, the 25-year-old Virginia native descended from a riser and made his introductions. “My name is Trey Songz.” A simple enough greeting, but in this particular setting, it had the effect of setting matches to fireworks. Above the squeals and awash in dim red lighting, Trigger Trey launched into a plaintive “I Need a Girl,” also from his career-shaping 2009 album, Ready. He soon kicked it back to ’07’s Trey Day for “Can’t Help But Wait” and “Last Time.” The swoon-inducing singer also sampled from the newly released album that gave the tour its name, thrusting his way through the naughty “Love Faces” and “Massage.” By now, Trey was beginning the “we’re on a first-date” narrative he would masterfully unspool over the course of a stormy New York night. Like the guy you spend the post-dinner cab ride gushing to your girls about, Songz was exceedingly attentive and generous with compliments: “You look too good to spend the night by yourself,” he said. For this outing, Trey insisted on planning everything. The date would go from the crib to the club. After transporting fans on “Jupiter Love,” he loosened his tie and leaned into the front row, allowing a concertgoer to (slowly) undo and remove the accessory altogether, one of the few moments the house turned quiet. Then he planted a kiss on her, and hush turned to howl. Between his urgent vocals and the hypnotic pillow talk, Mr. Steal Your Girl seemed dangerously close to scooping up not only someone else’s lady, but also to leaping ahead of his rivals to take the R&B throne out from under its reigning kings. After taking stabs at R. Kelly on record, Trey recently admitted to MTV News that his single biggest influence is in fact Kells. And to watch Songz in concert — giving a girl plucked from the audience a back rub, graphically simulating the various positions he’d like to try out on you — it’s hard not to think of R. Kelly. But where Kells’ “You remind me of my jeep” game served up sex in a few clumsy metaphors, Trey’s “panty-droppa” slow seduction is careful, wrapped in high-thread-count sheets. “You can scream as loud as you want,” a smiling Trigger, a.k.a. Mr. Double Entendre, told us midway through “Neighbors Know My Name.” Then ATL lyrical beast Ludacris turned up for his Songz-assisted “Sex Room,” and we were officially getting comped bottle service at the hot spot. The bounce-heavy “Bottoms Up” electrified the room, as energetic Trey spit the banger fast and furious. For the closer, Trey had one of Brooklyn’s finest, Fabolous, come through for ladies’ favorite, “Say Aah.” Trigger challenged the audience to rap Loso’s verse, which they did ecstatically for their homegrown MC. Finally down to a black T-shirt, Trey seemed to sense it had to come off. He dabbed a sweaty brow with the drenched tee, then up it went, over his head … and sailing into the waiting arms of hundreds and hundreds of incredibly satisfied women. Opening act Monica was 14 when she dropped her first album in 1995; there was no Facebook, no Twitter and definitely no celebrity blogs, a sphere in which the now-29-year-old Monica has at times found herself a target. “I know who I am and whose I am,” she said in response. But her commanding set was about expressing gratitude and empowerment. “Where all my real strong women at?” she asked, stalking the stage in a sequined superhero-inspired bodysuit. The singer’s alto, with its soaring vibrato, is a wonder. Sixteen years in the game, the former teen R&B queen proved why she’s “Still Standing,” using her tight opening set to revisit her early chart classics like “Don’t Take It Personal (Just One of Dem Days),” “Before You Walk Out of My Life” and the still-swagged-out (Jermaine Dupri!) “First Night,” but also recent hits like “So Gone,” “Everything to Me” and “Love All Over Me.” Fawning fans repaid the overjoyed star by singing along word-for-word and shouting their approval. Related Artists Trey Songz

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Lady Gaga Posts Anti-‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Video

‘I am here to be a voice for my generation,’ Gaga says before attempting to call her senators. By James Montgomery Lady Gaga Photo: Ian Gavan/ Getty Images In the days since Lady Gaga appeared at the MTV Video Music Awards with four members of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network — an organization opposed to the U.S. Armed Forces’ “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy — she has been on a mission: to speak out against what she sees as a “wrong … sick and … immoral” injustice, and to urge the U.S. Senate to vote on a measure that would repeal it. She’s traded messages with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid , castigated Arizona Senator John McCain over his attempted filibuster to block the measure and instructed her more than 6 million Twitter followers to contact their senators in support of the vote, which is scheduled to take place next week. And on Friday morning (September 17) she called her own senator during a seven-and-a-half minute video posted on her website . In the clip, Gaga addresses several senators by name — including Republicans McCain, Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell and Oklahoma’s James Inhofe — and asks them to vote in favor of the Defense Authorization Bill, which includes language that would repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” ” ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ is a law that was created in 1993 that prevents gays from serving openly in the military. Since then 14,000 Americans have been discharged from the armed forces, refused the right to serve their country and sent home, regardless of honorable service or how valuable they were to their units,” Gaga says in the message. “[The] SLDN’s advocacy proves that these soldiers are being searched; superiors are going through their e-mails and private belongings, calling family members and operating based on assumptions. Ultimately, the law is being enforced using gay profiling. … In short, not only is the law unconstitutional, but it’s not even being properly enforced by the government. “I am here to be a voice for my generation, not the generation of the senators who are voting, but for the youth of this country, the generation that is affected by this law and whose children will be affected,” she continued. “We are not asking you to agree with or approve the moral implications of homosexuality; we’re asking you to do your job, to protect the constitution.” Gaga then provides her fans with information on how they can contact their senators about the Defense Authorization Bill and calls the offices of her senators, New York Democrats Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand. Unfortunately, no one picks up in Schumer’s office and Gillibrand’s voicemail is full, but Gaga will not be discouraged. And she hopes her fans won’t be, either. “I have called both of the senators that operate in my district,” she says at the end of the video. “I will not stop calling until I reach them and I can leave them this message: ‘I am a constituent of the senator, my name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, also known as Lady Gaga. I’m calling to ask the senator to vote with Senators Reid and Levin to repeal ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ and oppose John McCain’s shameless filibuster. We need to do this for our gay and lesbian soldiers, and finally repeal ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’ ” Related Photos VMA 2010: Lady Gaga Lookbook Related Artists Lady Gaga

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Heidi and Spencer — Reunited and it Feels So Bad

Filed under: Heidi Montag , Spencer Pratt , Dirty Divorces , Heidi & Spencer Heidi and Spencer , please … just divorce already. We got these photos, which were taken yesterday just north of Los Angeles, and the rat we’re smelling is really beginning to stink. Although Heidi insists she’s divorcing Spencer, they were walking in… Read more

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Oksana Grigorieva — Dissatisfied, Lawyer Shopping

Filed under: Oksana Grigorieva , Mel Gibson , Celebrity Justice , Neal Hersh , Sorrell Trope Oksana Grigorieva clearly wants more than she’s been getting from the courts — because she’s seriously on the hunt for another family law lawyer in her legal war with Mel Gibson. We’ve learned she’s made an appointment to meet with yet another… Read more

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Pot Trading Cards Celebrate High Achievements

Barry Bonds and A-Rod aren't the only heavy hitters who've got a trading card following. A Berkeley medical pot dispensary has released an attractive set of cards that allows stoners to compare high-scoring ganja varietals such as Afghani Goo and Grand Daddy Purple. “It was really just like an evolution of the labeling system,” says David Bowers, a manager at the Patient's Care Collective, a 10-year-old pot store on Telegraph Avenue. Introduced in March, the cards feature glossy photos of killer buds along with details about their defining traits and medical uses. A 10-pack sells for $7. Of course, unlike standard medical marijuana cards, the trading-card versions don't give their holders the legal right to purchase pot. But anyone in the market for a nickel bag of funk might consult them to learn about the increasingly sophisticated effects and flavors of California's designer weed. Grand Daddy Purple has a “rich fruity and sweet scent like grape pixie sticks” and is “very relaxing and good for sleeping.” While the laid-back crowd might best avoid OG Kush, an “extremely pungent and skunky” plant that has psychoactive effects that “can be almost too strong for some patients.” Many of the cards read like a cross between a wine label and a bottle of Asprin, reflecting marijuana's double-edged allure as a medicine and agent of hedonism. (California voters will get a chance to legalize recreational marijuana in November). The Jack Herer variety, named after a leading pot activist, is “peppery and spicy, with a tough of tropical fruit.” It's also “clear, focused, energetic and motivating . . . A good strain for when you have to medicate during the work day.” Critics consider marijuana cards to be the reefer version of tobacco company R.J. Reynold's Joe Camel. “Using slick, full-color cards to glamorize marijuana is an overtly cynical attempt to promote marijuana use to children while turning a profit for yourself,” former California Attorney General Dan Lungren wrote along with 21 other state AGs in a 1998 letter to the now-defunct, San Francisco-based In-Line Trading Cards and Magazines, which had produced a set of “Hemp Cards” that were sold in retail stores. Bowers says that the Patient Care Collective only sells its cards at the dispensary and marijuana trade shows. http://motherjones.com/riff/2010/09/trading-cards-celebrate-pots-highest-rankers added by: pjacobs51

Morning Joe Cuts Pastor Jones Before He Has Chance to Respond to Panel

In what had to be the ultimate in condescension and elitism, MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” brought Pastor Terry Jones on the show merely to lecture him on Christianity, cutting him off before he could even respond. Co-host Mika Brzezinski explained to him “we don’t really need to hear anything else, so thanks.” Newsbusters’ Mark Finkelstein first briefly reported on this segment this morning. Panel member Jon Meacham, the departing editor of Newsweek, briefly preached to Pastor Jones on Jesus’ New Testament message of love and forgiveness and then appealed to him “as a fellow Christian” to not follow through with his threats to burn the Koran. Then, before Pastor Jones responded, his live feed was cut and co-host Mika Brzezinski continued with the show, saying that they did not need to listen to Pastor Jones. “The central message of the New Testament is forgiveness, and to put oneself in the place of another,” Meacham lectured Pastor Jones on planning to burn copies of the Koran. “And so I would simply appeal to you, as a fellow Christian, that the course you suggested is going to be incredibly dangerous, and would ask you to desist in the name of New Testament theology.” After Jones’ feed was cut, Mika remarked “Well said, Jon Meacham. And Pastor Terry Jones, we appeal to you to listen to that. And we don’t really need to hear anything else, so thanks.” The show featured a bizarre segment earlier on Pastor Jones’ threat, which he retracted from Thursday and now is not sure whether he will follow through on his plan. Both conservative Pat Buchanan and liberal Donny Deutsch agreed with each other that President Obama, as Commander-in-Chief, needs to step in and arrest the Pastor before reactions in the Middle East by militant Islamists result in the death of American troops. Donny Deutsch was still fuming over an hour later, when the Pastor’s feed was cut. Deutsch said he wanted to confront Jones as a “terrorist,” calling him “scum” and saying that “seeing his face is disgusting enough.” “I don’t think there should be a peaceful message,” Deutsch said in dealing with the pastor. “Sometimes screaming is okay.” A transcript of the segment, which aired on September 10 at 7:30 a.m. EDT, is as follows: MIKA BRZEZINSKI: We’ve really been debating whether or not to do this. Joe says “no,” he doesn’t think it’s a good idea at all. He might be right. The Florida pastor, threatening to burn copies of the Koran tomorrow, is now saying his plans are “on hold,” after a local Imam told him that the proposed New York Islamic center near Ground Zero would be moved. And joining us now from Gainesville, Florida, is pastor Terry Jones. And the reason we’re doing this is my worry is that the pastor’s going to have blood on his hands if he goes forward with this plan. So Jon Meacham just has a quick message for you, sir. Jon? JON MEACHAM, Editor, Newsweek: Pastor, I just wanted to – this is Jon Meachem. I just wanted to suggest that Jesus said the night before he was handed over to suffering and death that he ordered his disciples to love one another as he had loved them. That was his central commandment, and as he died, he said that “Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.” The central message of the New Testament is forgiveness, and to put oneself in the place of another. And so I would simply appeal to you, as a fellow Christian, that the course you suggested is going to be incredibly dangerous, and would ask you to desist in the name of New Testament theology. (Cut Live Feed) BRZEZINSKI: Alright, well said Jon Meachem, and Pastor Terry Jones we appeal to you to listen to that. And we don’t really need to hear anything else, so thanks. Alright, moving on. Donnie, you disagreed. You wanted to talk to him. DONNY DEUTSCH, Chairman, Deutsch, Inc.: Yeah, I think, and I understand why you guys don’t want to give him a platform. I mean, seeing his face is disgusting enough. But a lot – this kind of reach out, that we’ve come to a country where sometimes action needs to be taken. We’re at war, to – in the previous segment, this is obviously a bigger issue of, you know, Islamic hate running amuk. And we need to make a stand. And this guy, he’s scum, he is not a man of God – BRZEZINSKI: Now what productive nature would saying that to him have? (Crosstalk) DEUTSCH: Yes, everybody’s pussyfooting around with this guy! BRZEZINSKI: I’m not. We’re giving him a very peaceful message that (unintelligible) DEUTSCH: I don’t think there should be a peaceful message. This is a terrorist of a different form. He is no different than terrorists that are holding this country hostage. DAN SENOR, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations: You confronting him the way you want to confront him will build him up, get him even more ___ than he already is? Or is it actually going to make him less relevant? I think you will make him more relevant. DEUTSCH: He’s relevant! He’s relevant there, and I think 99 percent of this country feels the way I do and wants some action, and I just – I really believe that. And he’s already – SENOR: What you want to do is not action! DEUTSCH: The toothpaste – the toothpaste is out of the bottle. No, I want our President, our Commander-in-Chief to act like a Commander-in-Chief and say “This is putting our country in harm’s way right now.” We have the General of our troops over there saying that. Act like a Commander-in-Chief and stop this from happening. Somehow, someway. That’s all I’m asking. BRZEZINSKI: Okay. You know what? Screaming at him – DEUTSCH: Sometimes screaming is okay. Yeah. Sometimes screaming is okay. SENOR: Donnie, can I – the principle of the President stepping in is a principle you would be committed to if this were President Bush in a time of war saying “I need to take action against say the Imam, Imam Rauf. The mosque he’s building is going to inflame people, it’s going to be viewed as a monument of military victory, and we need to shut that down. Would you be comfortable with that? DEUTSCH: The video of burning the Koran around the world – SENOR: That’s not for you to decide. The question is are you for the principle of the President on these grounds to step in? BRZEZINSKI: Pat, before we go to a break, your thoughts? PAT BUCHANAN: Mika, the mosque is a matter of the culture war. This thing down in Florida is a matter of the real war. And let me say that if Gen. Petraeus, as he has done, tells his commander-in-chief “My men are in danger, they will die if this thing goes forward, and you as Commander-in-Chief do not act, and then men die as a consequence of that, men are lynched in the Middle East, Americans are killed, you are not qualified to be Commander-in-Chief in my judgment if you cannot act to save the boys you sent into battle. BRZEZINSKI: Meachem? MEACHAM: There’s got to be a way through this that is not going to violate the Constitution, and can preserve some sense of our culture of liberty, which is the message we have to send around the world. This is what we’re fighting for, this is what the country is about. And it’s repulsive what’s going on in Florida, but we unfortunately – repulsive things happen here. And we just can’t – BRZEZINSKI: And around this table, by the way, we all love each other very much, and a lot of us disagree. But we do, as you say Jon, have to find our way through it.

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Bozell: Jay Leno Knows More About What’s News than the ‘News’ Networks

The ABC, CBS and NBC evening new shows have yet to notice Fidel Castro’s astonishing admission that Cuban Communism does not work. But non-journalist Jay Leno brought the news to his Tonight Show audience on Thursday, joshing:  “Most Cubans heard this announcement on a 1954 RCA Deluxe console TV — beautiful black-and-white, all mahogany….” (Video at right) The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg recounted Castro’s confession in a September 8 post : During the generally lighthearted conversation (we had just spent three hours talking about Iran and the Middle East), I asked him if he believed the Cuban model was still something worth exporting. “The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore,” he said. This struck me as the mother of all Emily Litella moments. Did the leader of the Revolution just say, in essence, “Never mind”? I asked Julia to interpret this stunning statement for me. She said, “He wasn’t rejecting the ideas of the Revolution. I took it to be an acknowledgment that under ‘the Cuban model’ the state has much too big a role in the economic life of the country.” Despite the fact that communist Cuba has been a key foreign policy issue for the U.S. for more than 50 years, none of the three evening newscasts thought that worth mentioning either Wednesday night or Thursday. NBC’s Today show, however, gave it a few seconds on Thursday — a news brief read by Ann Curry: “In a rare interview, Cuba’s Fidel Castro was strikingly candid about his nation’s economy. Castro reportedly told Atlantic magazine that Cuba’s state-dominated economic system no longer works and is in need of change.” MRC President Brent Bozell issued the following statement to address the broadcast networks’ lack of interest: “Jay Leno knows more about current events than do the “news” networks.  Newsflash to the liberal media: Communism Fails! Period. You’ve had 50 years to report the abuses, suffering and oppression in Communist Cuba. But instead, you “journalists” were so infatuated with Fidel Castro that instead you did his bidding, continuously feeding Americans a steady diet of disgraceful propaganda. Aren’t you thoroughly ashamed it took the dictator himself to admit what you should have been reporting all along?”

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